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post 1660082343 04-22-2022, 11:02 AM
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Jealous of the warm weather fruits. Fresh picked bananas, mangoes, and pineapples are so much better than anything I can get in the stores here. Mangoes are my favorite fruit, but it's been years since I had a really good one.
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post 1665686463 08-07-2022, 06:53 AM
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Update from this summer crops:

I picked about 15 alphonso mangoes, not bad for year four of the tree, hoping for hundreds per year in the years to come. The complexity and depth of flavor on these can't be described. They are just pure bliss:





I harvested 113 bananas:





And a total of 10 plant-ripened pineapples. The sweetness just doesn't compare to the shyt you get at the store.

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post 1665687083 08-07-2022, 07:15 AM
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I'd probably make mine (wouldn't work in the climate I live though) all mango and guava.
post 1665687373 08-07-2022, 07:23 AM
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How do protect against birds and insects?
post 1665687413 08-07-2022, 07:24 AM
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Originally Posted By yeshli2nuts⏩
Update from this summer crops:

I picked about 15 alphonso mangoes, not bad for year four of the tree, hoping for hundreds per year in the years to come. The complexity and depth of flavor on these can't be described. They are just pure bliss:

I harvested 113 bananas:


And a total of 10 plant-ripened pineapples. The sweetness just doesn't compare to the shyt you get at the store.
So jealous. If a person hasn't been someplace they can get plant-ripened fruits they just don't know what they've been missing. Mangoes are my favorite fruit, but I don't even bother from the grocery store.
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post 1665687513 08-07-2022, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted By Polaris⏩
I'd probably make mine (wouldn't work in the climate I live though) all mango and guava.
I bought another young mango tree this spring, a Pickering variety which is a heavy and early producer of delicious fruit. I agree that you can't ever have enough mangoes. But guavas... ehhhh maybe I've ever had a good one but I just don't find them pleasant to eat. They do smell amazing though.
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post 1665687863 08-07-2022, 07:35 AM
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What the fuk those mangoes, that looks flavourful af


Mirin so hard
post 1665690873 08-07-2022, 08:52 AM
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Originally Posted By Ratfish⏩
shortly after buying this house, i planted: blackberries,
.....how is that turning out? My grandparents have blackberries...well, theyhadblackberries they had them removed back in the early 2000's and they still sprout up. They're invasive as phuck.
post 1665691013 08-07-2022, 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted By yeshli2nuts⏩
I bought another young mango tree this spring, a Pickering variety which is a heavy and early producer of delicious fruit. I agree that you can't ever have enough mangoes. But guavas... ehhhh maybe I've ever had a good one but I just don't find them pleasant to eat. They do smell amazing though.
IDK, but I lived in a house in San Diego for a bit that had a Guava tree in the back and....fuark those things were good. Those are basically the only ones I've ever had though, so I don't have any basis of comparison to say if maybe those ones were extra good ones or something.
post 1665695393 08-07-2022, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted By MuscleXtreme⏩
How do protect against birds and insects?
Birds do damage to my soft fruits, primarily my figs and grapes. I use a mixture of bird netting and bags when those fruits get ripe. Birds haven't gotten to the harder skinned fruits like the mangoes or pineapples. I've never had insect problems on my fruits but I am constantly dealing with them devouring the foliage. Aphids, weevils, beetles, and snails are major problems in my yard which go to town on the leaves. I use a mixture of systemic insecticide on the bad problems and neem oil and organic snail bait on the lesser problems.
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post 1665695553 08-07-2022, 10:52 AM
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post 1665695703 08-07-2022, 10:55 AM
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How much is the water bill tho?

Op u mirin poms?

They blooming like crazy this year
post 1665696143 08-07-2022, 11:05 AM
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Nice, brah, mirin.

Currently have the following fruit trees bearing annually:

Apple
Plum
Pomegranate
Peach
Orange
Lemon
Kumquat

Have some sugar cane, too.

Recently shared some peaches with our neighbors and the wife used them to make us a peach cobbler. Was delicious.
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post 1665709313 08-07-2022, 03:11 PM
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[QUOTE=H00J post_id=1665695703]How much is the water bill tho?

Op u mirin poms?

They blooming like crazy this year
[img]https://i.imgur.com/XvHlrPT.jpg[mg][/QUOTE]Those poms are beautiful bro. I have a pom tree but I don't think it'll ever fruit in this hot climate. It's a nice looking bush though.

Water bill isn't high. I actually have a rain barrel combined with the south Florida heavy rain I don't have to irrigate much.

[QUOTE=MyGhettoFantasy post_id=1665696143]Nice, brah, mirin.

Currently have the following fruit trees bearing annually:

Apple
Plum
Pomegranate
Peach
Orange
Lemon
Kumquat

Have some sugar cane, too.

Recently shared some peaches with our neighbors and the wife used them to make us a peach cobbler. Was delicious.[/QUOTE]Awesome. Where are you? Sounds like mid Atlantic or just cooler than semi tropical. I can't grow apples, plums, or peaches here, too hot.

[QUOTE=gwg77 post_id=1665696443]Whole stash looks great, but those mangos really look awesome. Well done bro.[/QUOTE]Thanks brah. I really can't overstate how amazing the mangoes are. It's the most complex flavor of a fruit I've ever had. Google alphonso mangoes.
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post 1685307383 06-25-2023, 08:16 PM
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Bro how do you avoid the Pests that try to eat your exotic fruits?

Like Bats and Rats?

Also did you ever think of growing Papaya?
post 1685366013 06-26-2023, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted By ChaliHo⏩
Bro how do you avoid the Pests that try to eat your exotic fruits?

Like Bats and Rats?

Also did you ever think of growing Papaya?
Regarding big animals, squirrels like to eat the mangoes when ripe so I've been picking them a little early and letting them ripen inside, and birds like to eat my figs so I try to use netting when they get ripe. I did grow papaya for a while, pretty sure I posted pics earlier in the thread.

Ok update time.

This mango season was a great one. I ended up picking about 70 amazing alphonso mangoes which are just like a completely different fruit from the crap they sell in stores. I still have like 20-25 in my fridge.





I had my first small harvest of sapodillas. Right after I picked the first few, the tree went right back to making tons more. These taste like pears soaked in brown sugar. Incredibly sweet molasses-like flavor.





Then just more bananas and pineapples





Other trees I have that have not fruit yet: two more small mango trees, another sapodilla, jackfruit, soursop, mamey sapote, jaboticaba loquat.
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post 1685366843 06-26-2023, 06:36 PM
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Should’ve planted just one type of fruit, jackass
post 1685367173 06-26-2023, 06:43 PM
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Mirin. What do you do with all that fruit? Do you freeze or sell some?
post 1685367343 06-26-2023, 06:48 PM
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Glad you bumped this i never saw the OG thread. I forgot i also have bananas but they haven't put out fruit in a while. I think i need to cut them down so they regrowth or something
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post 1685367593 06-26-2023, 06:54 PM
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Mirin climate, how's your coconut palm?
post 1685367963 06-26-2023, 07:02 PM
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mirin hard. Coldcel from apple state here

Place we live at has a couple mature pie cherry, apple & pear already. I finally put the time in to prune last winter. Things were 20ft tall. We also setup raised beds/garden this year for veg & flowers.
We also have a few rare large mature red huckleberry bushes, looking forward to those.

Property is naturally covered in blackberry & salmon berry too.

Got all these but cant do tropical anything in coldville & winter is wet wet
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post 1685368613 06-26-2023, 07:12 PM
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Still lookin solid OP. Have you thought about adding a few minigolf holes and a LOT of gravel?
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